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/AWS1/IF_S3=>LISTOBJECTSV2()

About ListObjectsV2

End of support notice: Beginning November 21, 2025, Amazon S3 will stop returning DisplayName. Update your applications to use canonical IDs (unique identifier for Amazon Web Services accounts), Amazon Web Services account ID (12 digit identifier) or IAM ARNs (full resource naming) as a direct replacement of DisplayName.

This change affects the following Amazon Web Services Regions: US East (N. Virginia) Region, US West (N. California) Region, US West (Oregon) Region, Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region, Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region, Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region, Europe (Ireland) Region, and South America (São Paulo) Region.

Returns some or all (up to 1,000) of the objects in a bucket with each request. You can use the request parameters as selection criteria to return a subset of the objects in a bucket. A 200 OK response can contain valid or invalid XML. Make sure to design your application to parse the contents of the response and handle it appropriately. For more information about listing objects, see Listing object keys programmatically in the Amazon S3 User Guide. To get a list of your buckets, see ListBuckets.

  • General purpose bucket - For general purpose buckets, ListObjectsV2 doesn't return prefixes that are related only to in-progress multipart uploads.

  • Directory buckets - For directory buckets, ListObjectsV2 response includes the prefixes that are related only to in-progress multipart uploads.

  • Directory buckets - For directory buckets, you must make requests for this API operation to the Zonal endpoint. These endpoints support virtual-hosted-style requests in the format https://amzn-s3-demo-bucket.s3express-zone-id.region-code.amazonaws.com/key-name . Path-style requests are not supported. For more information about endpoints in Availability Zones, see Regional and Zonal endpoints for directory buckets in Availability Zones in the Amazon S3 User Guide. For more information about endpoints in Local Zones, see Concepts for directory buckets in Local Zones in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

Permissions

  • General purpose bucket permissions - To use this operation, you must have READ access to the bucket. You must have permission to perform the s3:ListBucket action. The bucket owner has this permission by default and can grant this permission to others. For more information about permissions, see Permissions Related to Bucket Subresource Operations and Managing Access Permissions to Your Amazon S3 Resources in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

  • Directory bucket permissions - To grant access to this API operation on a directory bucket, we recommend that you use the CreateSession API operation for session-based authorization. Specifically, you grant the s3express:CreateSession permission to the directory bucket in a bucket policy or an IAM identity-based policy. Then, you make the CreateSession API call on the bucket to obtain a session token. With the session token in your request header, you can make API requests to this operation. After the session token expires, you make another CreateSession API call to generate a new session token for use. Amazon Web Services CLI or SDKs create session and refresh the session token automatically to avoid service interruptions when a session expires. For more information about authorization, see CreateSession .

Sorting order of returned objects

  • General purpose bucket - For general purpose buckets, ListObjectsV2 returns objects in lexicographical order based on their key names.

  • Directory bucket - For directory buckets, ListObjectsV2 does not return objects in lexicographical order.

HTTP Host header syntax

Directory buckets - The HTTP Host header syntax is Bucket-name.s3express-zone-id.region-code.amazonaws.com.

This section describes the latest revision of this action. We recommend that you use this revised API operation for application development. For backward compatibility, Amazon S3 continues to support the prior version of this API operation, ListObjects.

The following operations are related to ListObjectsV2:

You must URL encode any signed header values that contain spaces. For example, if your header value is my file.txt, containing two spaces after my, you must URL encode this value to my%20%20file.txt.

Method Signature

METHODS /AWS1/IF_S3~LISTOBJECTSV2
  IMPORTING
    !IV_BUCKET TYPE /AWS1/S3_BUCKETNAME OPTIONAL
    !IV_DELIMITER TYPE /AWS1/S3_DELIMITER OPTIONAL
    !IV_ENCODINGTYPE TYPE /AWS1/S3_ENCODINGTYPE OPTIONAL
    !IV_MAXKEYS TYPE /AWS1/S3_MAXKEYS OPTIONAL
    !IV_PREFIX TYPE /AWS1/S3_PREFIX OPTIONAL
    !IV_CONTINUATIONTOKEN TYPE /AWS1/S3_TOKEN OPTIONAL
    !IV_FETCHOWNER TYPE /AWS1/S3_FETCHOWNER OPTIONAL
    !IV_STARTAFTER TYPE /AWS1/S3_STARTAFTER OPTIONAL
    !IV_REQUESTPAYER TYPE /AWS1/S3_REQUESTPAYER OPTIONAL
    !IV_EXPECTEDBUCKETOWNER TYPE /AWS1/S3_ACCOUNTID OPTIONAL
    !IT_OPTIONALOBJECTATTRIBUTES TYPE /AWS1/CL_S3_OPTIONALOBJATTRS00=>TT_OPTIONALOBJECTATTRSLIST OPTIONAL
  RETURNING
    VALUE(OO_OUTPUT) TYPE REF TO /aws1/cl_s3_listobjsv2output
  RAISING
    /AWS1/CX_S3_NOSUCHBUCKET
    /AWS1/CX_S3_CLIENTEXC
    /AWS1/CX_S3_SERVEREXC
    /AWS1/CX_RT_TECHNICAL_GENERIC
    /AWS1/CX_RT_SERVICE_GENERIC.

IMPORTING

Required arguments:

iv_bucket TYPE /AWS1/S3_BUCKETNAME /AWS1/S3_BUCKETNAME

Directory buckets - When you use this operation with a directory bucket, you must use virtual-hosted-style requests in the format Bucket-name.s3express-zone-id.region-code.amazonaws.com. Path-style requests are not supported. Directory bucket names must be unique in the chosen Zone (Availability Zone or Local Zone). Bucket names must follow the format bucket-base-name--zone-id--x-s3 (for example, amzn-s3-demo-bucket--usw2-az1--x-s3). For information about bucket naming restrictions, see Directory bucket naming rules in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

Access points - When you use this action with an access point for general purpose buckets, you must provide the alias of the access point in place of the bucket name or specify the access point ARN. When you use this action with an access point for directory buckets, you must provide the access point name in place of the bucket name. When using the access point ARN, you must direct requests to the access point hostname. The access point hostname takes the form AccessPointName-AccountId.s3-accesspoint.Region.amazonaws.com. When using this action with an access point through the Amazon Web Services SDKs, you provide the access point ARN in place of the bucket name. For more information about access point ARNs, see Using access points in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

Object Lambda access points are not supported by directory buckets.

S3 on Outposts - When you use this action with S3 on Outposts, you must direct requests to the S3 on Outposts hostname. The S3 on Outposts hostname takes the form AccessPointName-AccountId.outpostID.s3-outposts.Region.amazonaws.com. When you use this action with S3 on Outposts, the destination bucket must be the Outposts access point ARN or the access point alias. For more information about S3 on Outposts, see What is S3 on Outposts? in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

Optional arguments:

iv_delimiter TYPE /AWS1/S3_DELIMITER /AWS1/S3_DELIMITER

A delimiter is a character that you use to group keys.

CommonPrefixes is filtered out from results if it is not lexicographically greater than the StartAfter value.

  • Directory buckets - For directory buckets, / is the only supported delimiter.

  • Directory buckets - When you query ListObjectsV2 with a delimiter during in-progress multipart uploads, the CommonPrefixes response parameter contains the prefixes that are associated with the in-progress multipart uploads. For more information about multipart uploads, see Multipart Upload Overview in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

iv_encodingtype TYPE /AWS1/S3_ENCODINGTYPE /AWS1/S3_ENCODINGTYPE

Encoding type used by Amazon S3 to encode the object keys in the response. Responses are encoded only in UTF-8. An object key can contain any Unicode character. However, the XML 1.0 parser can't parse certain characters, such as characters with an ASCII value from 0 to 10. For characters that aren't supported in XML 1.0, you can add this parameter to request that Amazon S3 encode the keys in the response. For more information about characters to avoid in object key names, see Object key naming guidelines.

When using the URL encoding type, non-ASCII characters that are used in an object's key name will be percent-encoded according to UTF-8 code values. For example, the object test_file(3).png will appear as test_file%283%29.png.

iv_maxkeys TYPE /AWS1/S3_MAXKEYS /AWS1/S3_MAXKEYS

Sets the maximum number of keys returned in the response. By default, the action returns up to 1,000 key names. The response might contain fewer keys but will never contain more.

iv_prefix TYPE /AWS1/S3_PREFIX /AWS1/S3_PREFIX

Limits the response to keys that begin with the specified prefix.

Directory buckets - For directory buckets, only prefixes that end in a delimiter (/) are supported.

iv_continuationtoken TYPE /AWS1/S3_TOKEN /AWS1/S3_TOKEN

ContinuationToken indicates to Amazon S3 that the list is being continued on this bucket with a token. ContinuationToken is obfuscated and is not a real key. You can use this ContinuationToken for pagination of the list results.

iv_fetchowner TYPE /AWS1/S3_FETCHOWNER /AWS1/S3_FETCHOWNER

The owner field is not present in ListObjectsV2 by default. If you want to return the owner field with each key in the result, then set the FetchOwner field to true.

Directory buckets - For directory buckets, the bucket owner is returned as the object owner for all objects.

iv_startafter TYPE /AWS1/S3_STARTAFTER /AWS1/S3_STARTAFTER

StartAfter is where you want Amazon S3 to start listing from. Amazon S3 starts listing after this specified key. StartAfter can be any key in the bucket.

This functionality is not supported for directory buckets.

iv_requestpayer TYPE /AWS1/S3_REQUESTPAYER /AWS1/S3_REQUESTPAYER

Confirms that the requester knows that she or he will be charged for the list objects request in V2 style. Bucket owners need not specify this parameter in their requests.

This functionality is not supported for directory buckets.

iv_expectedbucketowner TYPE /AWS1/S3_ACCOUNTID /AWS1/S3_ACCOUNTID

The account ID of the expected bucket owner. If the account ID that you provide does not match the actual owner of the bucket, the request fails with the HTTP status code 403 Forbidden (access denied).

it_optionalobjectattributes TYPE /AWS1/CL_S3_OPTIONALOBJATTRS00=>TT_OPTIONALOBJECTATTRSLIST TT_OPTIONALOBJECTATTRSLIST

Specifies the optional fields that you want returned in the response. Fields that you do not specify are not returned.

This functionality is not supported for directory buckets.

RETURNING

oo_output TYPE REF TO /aws1/cl_s3_listobjsv2output /AWS1/CL_S3_LISTOBJSV2OUTPUT

Domain /AWS1/RT_ACCOUNT_ID
Primitive Type NUMC

Examples

Syntax Example

This is an example of the syntax for calling the method. It includes every possible argument and initializes every possible value. The data provided is not necessarily semantically accurate (for example the value "string" may be provided for something that is intended to be an instance ID, or in some cases two arguments may be mutually exclusive). The syntax shows the ABAP syntax for creating the various data structures.

DATA(lo_result) = lo_client->listobjectsv2(
  it_optionalobjectattributes = VALUE /aws1/cl_s3_optionalobjattrs00=>tt_optionalobjectattrslist(
    ( new /aws1/cl_s3_optionalobjattrs00( |string| ) )
  )
  iv_bucket = |string|
  iv_continuationtoken = |string|
  iv_delimiter = |string|
  iv_encodingtype = |string|
  iv_expectedbucketowner = |string|
  iv_fetchowner = ABAP_TRUE
  iv_maxkeys = 123
  iv_prefix = |string|
  iv_requestpayer = |string|
  iv_startafter = |string|
).

This is an example of reading all possible response values

lo_result = lo_result.
IF lo_result IS NOT INITIAL.
  lv_istruncated = lo_result->get_istruncated( ).
  LOOP AT lo_result->get_contents( ) into lo_row.
    lo_row_1 = lo_row.
    IF lo_row_1 IS NOT INITIAL.
      lv_objectkey = lo_row_1->get_key( ).
      lv_lastmodified = lo_row_1->get_lastmodified( ).
      lv_etag = lo_row_1->get_etag( ).
      LOOP AT lo_row_1->get_checksumalgorithm( ) into lo_row_2.
        lo_row_3 = lo_row_2.
        IF lo_row_3 IS NOT INITIAL.
          lv_checksumalgorithm = lo_row_3->get_value( ).
        ENDIF.
      ENDLOOP.
      lv_checksumtype = lo_row_1->get_checksumtype( ).
      lv_size = lo_row_1->get_size( ).
      lv_objectstorageclass = lo_row_1->get_storageclass( ).
      lo_owner = lo_row_1->get_owner( ).
      IF lo_owner IS NOT INITIAL.
        lv_displayname = lo_owner->get_displayname( ).
        lv_id = lo_owner->get_id( ).
      ENDIF.
      lo_restorestatus = lo_row_1->get_restorestatus( ).
      IF lo_restorestatus IS NOT INITIAL.
        lv_isrestoreinprogress = lo_restorestatus->get_isrestoreinprogress( ).
        lv_restoreexpirydate = lo_restorestatus->get_restoreexpirydate( ).
      ENDIF.
    ENDIF.
  ENDLOOP.
  lv_bucketname = lo_result->get_name( ).
  lv_prefix = lo_result->get_prefix( ).
  lv_delimiter = lo_result->get_delimiter( ).
  lv_maxkeys = lo_result->get_maxkeys( ).
  LOOP AT lo_result->get_commonprefixes( ) into lo_row_4.
    lo_row_5 = lo_row_4.
    IF lo_row_5 IS NOT INITIAL.
      lv_prefix = lo_row_5->get_prefix( ).
    ENDIF.
  ENDLOOP.
  lv_encodingtype = lo_result->get_encodingtype( ).
  lv_keycount = lo_result->get_keycount( ).
  lv_token = lo_result->get_continuationtoken( ).
  lv_nexttoken = lo_result->get_nextcontinuationtoken( ).
  lv_startafter = lo_result->get_startafter( ).
  lv_requestcharged = lo_result->get_requestcharged( ).
ENDIF.

To get object list

The following example retrieves object list. The request specifies max keys to limit response to include only 2 object keys. 

DATA(lo_result) = lo_client->listobjectsv2(
  iv_bucket = |DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET|
  iv_maxkeys = 2
).